How to Achieve The Most Elevated Earscape

By Jill Newman, June 24, 2025

Get inspired by the dazzling diamond earscapes from the red carpet and learn how to create your own.

How to Achieve The Most Elevated Earscape

White Diamond Elixia Earcuff (Courtesy of DYNE)

One of the sexiest and chicest diamond jewelry trends on the red carpet this year was the artfully curated earscape. What does that mean? Rather than multiple stacked earrings up the ear, it’s two or three mismatched bold diamond earrings and ear cuffs worn high on the ear.

Cate Blanchett was the first to catch my attention at the 2025 Golden Globes in a stunning metallic Louis Vuitton dress and two striking gold and diamond ear cuffs designed by Francesca Amfitheatrof, the house’s artistic director of jewelry at the time. It was stylish and modern, with a subtle edge.

The trend is a shift in the way we wear and shop for earrings. While the earscape has long been popular with a younger set, they often project an edgy, street style spirit. Today’s new ear game combines that rebellious flair with refined, high style. Women of every age are embracing the trend, wearing dazzling chubby gold and diamond hoops, designer stud earrings, and ear cuffs artfully arranged.

Meet the Author

Jill Newman is a jewelry authority, editor, and storyteller with over 25 years of experience, having reported from diamond mines in Africa, cutting workshops in India and Belgium, and ateliers around the world.
She serves as Editor-at-Large for the Natural Diamond Council, with additional bylines in The New York Times, Town & Country, Elle Décor, and Robb Report.

Antonia Gentry wearing a DYNE diamond earscape (Photographed by Mark Lim) — Antonia Gentry wearing DYNE ear cuffs, a Repossi necklace, and
Effy ring, Photographed by Mark Lim

The Earscape on the Red Carpet

The new ear adornment is all about individuality and creativity. Look no further than this year’s red carpet for some of the best inspiration. At the Golden Globes, Kristen Bell donned Reza’s diamond ear climber, and Angelina Jolie wore Messika’s eye-catching diamond studs and a single ear cuff with a diamond fringe. At Vanity Fair’s Oscar after-party, Madelyn Cline wore mismatched Briony Raymond diamond ear cuffs, and Shira Haas dressed one ear in a diamond drop earring and two cuffs from Grace Lee and Anita Ko.

Celebrity stylists played a big role in the earring evolution by showing a mix of fewer, more important diamond earrings on their clients to project a more sophisticated earscape aesthetic.

Boucheron was the first Parisian heritage house to break with tradition when a few years ago it offered a single diamond high jewelry earring (rather than a pair) that wrapped around the ear. It has continued to create lavish single earrings, like the new Plume de Paon asymmetrical earrings that Michelle Yeoh wore at the Academy Awards. Even men are adopting the trend, like Colman Domingo, who wore Boucheron’s diamond cat stud earring with two Quatre single ear clips at the Academy Awards.

Kristen Bell wore a Reza’s diamond earscape at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards. — Kristen Bell wore Reza’s diamond ear climber at the Golden Globe Awards on January 05, 2025. (Getty Images)

Michelle Yeoh wore a Boucheron Plume de Paon diamond earscape at the 2025 Oscars. — Michelle Yeoh wore Boucheron Plume de Paon asymmetrical earrings at the Oscars on March 02, 2025. (Getty Images)

Colman Domingo wore a Boucheron earscape at the 2025 Met Gala in New York City. — Colman Domingo wore a Boucheron ear climber at the 2025 Met Gala in New York City. (Getty Images)

The elevated ear story was the most exciting look on the red-carpet at the Cannes Film Festival this year. After years of the focus on the necklace, it appears stylists and celebrities were ready for something new and daring, and it’s about time. My personal favorite was Jennifer Lawrence in a one-shoulder black gown with Ana Khouri’s lavish diamond and emerald ear piece stacked with a diamond ear cuff. No other jewels required. That one jewel was enough to turn heads.

Since Ana Khouri launched her namesake business in 2013, she has favored the single statement earrings and she understands how to make it work better than most. A trained sculptor, Khouri approaches jewelry in the same way, shaping it by hand so it forms to body, and she’s done it with earrings that seemingly align with the ear’s natural curves like a second skin.

Jennifer Lawrence wore an Ana Khouri diamond earscape at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival — Jennifer Lawrence at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 17, 2025 in Cannes, France. (Getty Images)

Rihanna wore a Boucheron diamond earscape at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival — Rihanna at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 19, 2025 in Cannes, France. (Getty Images)

Colman Domingo, a man who clearly loves jewelry and isn’t shy about flaunting it, wore a colorful Boucheron design, with a jeweled parrot perched on top of the ear and its tail flowing beneath. While Rihanna, another celebrity who goes big and adventurous with diamonds, sported Boucheron’s diamond leaf earrings that stretch from the lobe to the top.

An Earscape For Everyday

Anita Ko Diamond Earscape — Anita Ko Large Diamond Celeste Earrings, $22,175, anitako.com.

Beyond the red carpet, the earscape is a chic every day look, and they doesn’t have to break the bank. The elevated ear game is a way to repurpose great diamond earrings for a second outing by wearing your favorites solo or adding another piercing high on the ear for your tried-and-true diamond studs or ear cuffs.

Designers who are also on top of the elevated ear story are Anita Ko (a big proponent for years), Foundrae, Harwell Godfrey, Jade Ruzzo and Stephanie Gottlieb to mention a few. And most designers are selling single earrings today, so the styling options are limitless.

How to Style The Best Earscape

Style tips: The trick to this trend is that it’s refined, not messy. Choose one statement single earring or a few and balance it with something smaller, even a stud, on the other ear. Skip the big necklace because you only need one statement piece near the face.

Don’t overlook your hairstyle. When the earring is this good it requires swept up hair, because you need to see the earring in all its glory!

Take a lesson from Dua Lipa, known for her creative earscapes, who attended Chanel’s Spring couture runway show with her hair pulled back in a large black bow and Tiffany & Co. diamond Victoria earrings strategically placed at the high point of the ear, like points of light. Sometimes, less is more, especially when diamonds are artfully arranged.